[LAD] hard realtime performance synth

[Jens M Andreasen]

On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 09:25 +0000, Victor Lazzarini wrote:
> What 16 thousand million? Who said there was no money in electronic  
> music instruments?
> 

Yes it does sound a bit excessive, doesn't it? According to the same
website, Roland is selling for $40 billion. This includes their Video
gear though.

And then again, Yamaha is selling for only $4 billion, which is highly
surprising compared to the two others?! Did something get lost in
translation? Are these figures really Taiwan or Hong Kong dollars? Yen?

Roland is publically traded and hence publish their key data, which
tells us that their sales for 2009 were at ¥100,506,864,000 (Yen!) which
then again still translates to around a billion US dollars - but nowhere
near the forty like it was quoted in the link I gave yesterday.
Sorry ...

Roland:  $1 billion
http://www.corporateinformation.com/Company-Snapshot.aspx?cusip=C39242560

Yamaha:  $4 billion
http://www.corporateinformation.com/Company-Snapshot.aspx?cusip=C39283560

Kawai: $1/2 billion
http://www.corporateinformation.com/Company-Snapshot.aspx?cusip=C392AK960


My guess is that KORG would be selling maybe like Kawai? (while of
course targetting an entirely different market.) 

In any case, $16 billion does not sound reasonable.



... And now back to our regular programming:
 
 "How to make useful musical instruments out of the techno-trash others
have thrown in the dumpster?" 



> On 24 Jan 2010, at 15:06, Jens M Andreasen wrote:
> 
> >
> > On Sun, 2010-01-24 at 17:46 +0300, Louigi Verona wrote:
> >> I read about this Korg OASYS ...
> >
> >> ... Proprietary world is so full of wasted efforts, imho.
> >
> > The 290 employees at KORG is raking in a cool $16,419.7 million in
> > annual sales from their efforts, so they might deviate just slightly
> > from our most humble opinions.
> >
> > :-D
> >
> > http://www.hoovers.com/company/Korg_Inc/rfcjhyi-1.html
> >
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